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which have assuredly come to stay, so beautiful and so easily grown have 
they proved. And with them must be classed the parent species, including 
“the peerless Disa grandiflora, the Pride of Table Mountain,” which, when 
it succeeds well, is still unsurpassed in cultivation, though it does not succeed 
everywhere for some reason. Then there are several Satyriums worthy of 
cultivation, the handsome Stenoglottis longifolia and S. fimbriata, and even 
some of the European Orchises are easily grown and very handsome. And 
there are the hardy Cypripediums, several of which do well in pots, and are 
very gay during the early summer. But there is no need to draw up a 
catalogue, as many of them are well known. Reverting again for a moment 
to the Disas, it is probable that other acquisitions will soon be forthcoming, 
as further crosses have been attempted, and such promising little plants are 
sure not to be neglected. 
It is interesting to note that an importation of the handsome Renanthera 
Imschootiana has been secured. Were it not so recent a discovery I should 
think that this must be the scarlet Vanda which was reported some years 
ago. Out of flower, it is more suggestive of a Vanda of the ccerulea group 
than a Renanthera, and if it blooms as freely as appearances seem to indi- 
cate, it will be a great acquisition. Hitherto it has been too rare to form 
an opinion, though Mr. Woodall’s plant, exhibited some time ago at one of 
the Royal Horticultural Society's meetings, affords pretty conclusive evidence 
of its true character. a 
RGUS. 
THE HYBRIDIST. 
CATTLEYA X SUPER-FORBESII. 
Unber this remarkable name is described a very pretty hybrid which was 
shown at the last York Gala by Mr. James Cypher, Queen’s Road Nursery, 
Cheltenham, and received an Award of Merit. The parentage is recorded 
as C. Forbesii x superba. The habit and general shape of the flower : 
approach nearest to C. Forbesii, but in the colour, the more expanded side- 
lobes of the lip, and the texture of the flower, the influence of C. superba is 
said to preponderate. The sepals and petals are creamy white, tinged with 
Tose, and green at the tips, while the lip is: yellowish white with brownish 
yellow raised lines, and the side-lobes rose-purple inside and veined outside 
with the same colour. The front lobe is rose-purple, with some yellow in the 
centre, as in C. superba.—O’Brien in Gard. Chron., July 25th, p. 90. 
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